Lukasz Owsian won the best climber classification of the Tour de Pologne with his national team.
Photo Szymon Gruchalski
“I came to the Tour of Poland as a direct result of the Vuelta de Burgos that I raced with the Arkéa-Samsic team. I only had one day of rest and the next day the race started. I rode the Tour of Poland with the national team. On the first day I stayed calm because I knew that on the next two stages I had to take part in the breakaways, because my objective on this World-Tour event was to win the mountain classification, but also to play my luck, if possible, on the stages. On my first breakaway I took all the mountain points, but I knew it wouldn’t be enough, so in order to win, I went back in the breakaway a second time and I was able to win this jersey. It was very hard to get such a result and to go in the breakaway because it was a lot of fight to take the shots. I was careful until the end of the race because I already wore this jersey, but I lost it in the past because of mechanical problems on the last stage. I am very proud of this success for me, the Polish team but also for the Arkéa-Samsic team that trusted me to ride this race with my national federation”.
“I came to the Tour of Poland as a direct result of the Vuelta de Burgos that I raced with the Arkéa-Samsic team. I only had one day of rest and the next day the race started. I rode the Tour of Poland with the national team. On the first day I stayed calm because I knew that on the next two stages I had to take part in the breakaways, because my objective on this World-Tour event was to win the mountain classification, but also to play my luck, if possible, on the stages. On my first breakaway I took all the mountain points, but I knew it wouldn’t be enough, so in order to win, I went back in the breakaway a second time and I was able to win this jersey. It was very hard to get such a result and to go in the breakaway because it was a lot of fight to take the shots. I was careful until the end of the race because I already wore this jersey, but I lost it in the past because of mechanical problems on the last stage. I am very proud of this success for me, the Polish team but also for the Arkéa-Samsic team that trusted me to ride this race with my national federation”.